Cybersecurity

Commerce loses, Education gains in IT spending

Most IT budgets would change little from fiscal 2010 under the Obama administration's budget.

Modernization

Cloud-computing success depends on knowing what to ask

One of cloud computing's most attractive features -- the ability to pool resources -- could be the biggest impediment to implementing the technology for the federal government.

Digital Government

NASA's moon program on chopping block

Wall Street Journal

Modernization

Simulation technology heads for the cloud

Washington Technology

Digital Government

VA tests online score card for IT projects

Site is designed to add more detail on status of projects in governmentwide IT dashboard.

Cybersecurity

House considers bill to fund cybersecurity training, research and development

Measure would require NIST to develop standards to help agencies address potential risks to their computer networks, but the possibility of full funding is uncertain.

Digital Government

White House budget document shows IT spending winners, losers

Defense Department would receive the biggest increase, while the tech budgets for Commerce, Homeland Security, Interior, Labor, and NASA would be cut.

People

2010 Federal 100 award winners announced

Federal Computer Week and the 1105 Government Information Group release the complete list of the 2010 winners of the Federal 100 awards.

Ideas

$50 Million Budget for Integrated E-Gov

President Obama reinforced his call to modernize government by asking Congress to spend tens of millions of dollars over three years on governmentwide innovations.

Digital Government

That Brit Report On Chinese Cyber Spying

The <em>New York Times</em> rather breathlessly <a href=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/world/europe/01spy.html>reported</a> during the past weekend that in 2007 the head of British intelligence warned businesses in England that Chinese intelligence agencies were engaged in a wide ranging effort to hack into their computers.

People

Do federal managers play favorites in career advancement?

Many workers think their managers promote based on favortism, but that's not necessarily so.

Digital Government

Katie Stanton brings Silicon Valley know-how to Foggy Bottom

Having served in senior positions at Google and Yahoo, Katie Stanton’s résumé doesn't resemble one of a typical State Department insider. And that is exactly why she is the department's new director of citizen participation and special adviser on innovation.

Cybersecurity

Cyber threat growing at unprecedented rate, intell chief says

Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair today gave a blunt assessment of the many cyber threats faced by U.S. government and private-sector networks.